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MotownHorn

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  1. If you read someone of Derka's posts in this thread he literally says "Motown Horn would say nice things to me, but he didn't mean them!"

    How the fuck would he know if I meant it or not? He doesn't know me. I definitely meant it. I wish the guy no ill will and I'm sincerely worried about him now.

    Again he got it in his head that I was his big enemy despite the fact that I tried to ignore him, be nice to him, and deescalate things with him.

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  2. You can also look at posts 2073 and 2076 in the fire RT thread

    I add a disclaimer to post 2073 so Derka didn't feel like I was attacking him personally. Post 2076 is a long rant calling my opinion "stupid" and a "joke." I did not reply to Derka's rude response to my post because I did not want to upset him. I did that dozens of times in the last few months. He'd attack me directly, I'd ignore it.

    I swear to God I was trying to deescalate any conflict with the guy. I tried to post supportive messages to him etc.

    I can't control that Derka got it in his head that I was his big enemy and he was really gonna get me good by working with blacklabs to get me permabanned.

    I wish I understood earlier that I could put him on ignore and still see the threads he started. That may have avoided the whole thing. 

    It's all very silly and stupid. Again, I apologize to Derka, the mods, and the boards for my role in this matter. 

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  3. I agree with everything posted above except for calling me a "bully." I went out of my way to NOT bully the guy. 

    Also blacklabs never told me all that stuff Derka says he told me. He would just suspend me out of nowhere with a nasty message I couldn't even respond to. No one ever said anything to me about an IP ban or anything else.

    Every time blacklabs would say something to me like "Derka doesn't like you using the phrase tourney dynamo to mock Chris Beard" I would say "ok I will not use that phrase if that bothers him. Even though that's ridiculous." I did my best to NOT torment or bully him.

    In the last 6 to 12 months there's been tons of posters who have been a lot ruder to Derka than I was. For whatever reason he got it in his head that I was his big enemy and focused on me.

    This apparent deal he had with blacklabs to try to get me banned did not serve him well IMO. It just made him fixate on me and make up this big battle in his head where he was going to emerge as King of the Message Board.

    I think blacklabs had Derka's best interest at heart, and was trying to help, but turning it into a game to get me banned was not helpful. It fed into his problem instead of helping solve it.

    I truly feel bad he's banned and I hope he is well. I'm not his enemy or bully. I'm just a guy who had a different opinion than him.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Bevo said:

    Yeah, I made that mistake 5 years ago or so. I don't know what the right answer is, but maybe some people will chime in. I went to Fredericksburg with my wife and son right after getting my car inspected. I have allergies from wine so I didn't do any wine tasting. I had one cider with diner. Maybe a half hour after a long early diner (so an hour and a half after the cider), we left town at dusk and I didn't notice my light weren't on. The inspector had turned the light switch from automatic. Anyway, I was stopped maybe 10mi from town for driving with my lights off. It was a new, really short policeman who was shaking speaking with me and asked if I had any drinks. I told him I had one cider with diner. He then proceeded to do a sobriety test. It was dark by that time, so as he was pointing the light in my eyes, bugs were flying up my nose, etc. He had me stand with my feet together at the side of the road, which was at probably a 25% angle - try doing that without taking a step forward. I didn't step forward but I bet 95% of the population would. Shit I could have beat the guy senseless in basketball, but obviously that wasn't part of his fucking test. Anyway, he let me go after a long lecture. Knowing that I was sober, should I have just asked him for a breathalyzer? Should I have let him take me to jail, for one fucking cider? Or should I have done what I did and hopefully pass the fucking subjective test that he was obviously trying to get me to fail?

    The usual advice is to say something like “I’m not going to discuss my day.” You can also just say “no.” You’re not under oath.

  5. On 4/8/2024 at 11:46 AM, immamac said:

    I would suppose around 40-50%. There’s a lot of poor drunks out there. 

    I once had to go to traffic court because I forgot to pay the ticket before the appearance date 

    The DUIs were sad. It was all poor people on their 3rd or 4th DUI driving without licenses and blowing like 0.15 or higher 

    Obviously driving drunk is dangerous and unacceptable. But I had some sympathy for these folks because they clearly had serious alcohol problems and few resources to attempt to solve them and get sober 

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  6. 22 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    CDC missed an opportunity. Last year, he should’ve told RT he wasn’t getting the HC position but if he publicly announced he wasn’t interested in being HC, here’s a nice fat fucking bonus check. It would’ve been nice and clean and saved the optics.

    Why in the world would RT accept a bonus check over a $15 million contract?

  7. 35 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    You have 3 sides to this story. Derka’s, Motown’s and the truth.

    Reading this over the weekend, especially the examples posted by both sides, I realized that this really looks like standard message board banter that both sides appear to have taken way too personally.

    I agree it was standard message board banter that one side took way too personally. I didn't take it personally at all. I wasn't PMing mods and devising a scheme to get Derka banned. 

    I didn't ask for Derka to be banned, I didn't try to get Derka banned, and I don't even want Derka to be banned.  That was all on him.

    All he had to do was click the ignore button and not be an enormous dick to the site owner.
      

  8. 19 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    The notion of historical blue bloods continuing  to be a thing is very much an open question. The playing field has leveled and continues to change. The days of kids caring about Roll Tide, Pig Sooie, or Hook ‘Em are so over. They’re business people now and they’re all about business. 

    I think it’s actually a mix of both and that’s where Texas has a big advantage, especially in football 

  9. 4 hours ago, n64ra said:

    Really need Purdue to win so I don't lose my family bracket.

    My 8 year old won our women's family bracket and wins our 12 person men's family bracket with a UConn W tonight.

    Should have entered her brackets into some money pools!

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  10. Here’s a post from a month ago where Derka is talking shit about me. Instead of talking shit back iIMG_4173.thumb.png.4d02b973c6cdaf4672918f6af392c7bb.png begged Derka to put me on ignore and stop interacting with me.

    His response was to laugh at it and then his next post was basically “I got you banned! Stay in line or else!”

    Ive been actively trying to descalate this personal beef he has against me. He has refused at every point because he wants to play a game where he gets me banned for innocuous posts and becomes King of the Internet 

    Well that didn’t work out. So apologize to imma, click the ignore button, and move on IMG_4173.thumb.png.4d02b973c6cdaf4672918f6af392c7bb.png

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  11. My last post in this thread

    Derka acts like I was going nuts personally bullying him. I was not. He was reporting anything I posted that was tangentially related to him to blacklabs.

    The post that apparently was going to get me banned was him saying that there’s no examples of mens coaches acting like Kim Mulkey and getting away with it with little criticism. I said “ever heard of Chris Beard?” That’s it. That’s all I posted. 

    Thats not a bullying attack on Derka. Thats a valid and relevant example of an asshole male coach who doesn’t get criticized like she does. I didn’t insult him, attack him, call him a name, etc. I simply disagreed with him.

    Before I knew of Derkas issues I 100% was a jerk to him. For that I apologize for a 2nd time today. But I promise I have been bending over backwards to not trigger him for at least a year now. 

    The last post on the last page by KaiserSoze summarizes my perspective on the situation very well.

    I truly feel bad about this matter. I apologize to the guy. I promise to keep him on ignore and not badmouth him.

    I encourage him to simply hit the ignore button and never be bothered by my posts again. Maybe if he does that, takes responsibility for his behavior, and nicely apooogizes to immamac then imma will let him stay on the board. 

    Blacklabs clearly wants to help Derka. I honestly do too. But he also has to help himself by taking responsibility for his behavior. 

    That’s my final post on the matter. I find it all sad and silly and regrettable. My apologies for my role in it. 

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  12. 3 hours ago, Pancho said:

    Derka, you should have put Motown on ignore. Don’t worry about what he personally says about you. People are going to personally talk about you for the rest of your life. You can’t help that and why should you care? Not only that, the rest of us in the basketball forum will take care of it if Motown gets out of control and keeps being an ass. We’ve done it before. 

    Motown—you also are at fault here. You had every chance to put Derka on ignore as well and you didn’t do it. You could have been the bigger person and stopped it altogether but you kept egging him and the situation on, which says a lot about the maturity level. 

    If you permaban Derka, you must also permaban Motown as he is the other 50% of this problem. 

    I put him on ignore as requested. You’re right I should have earlier. I didn’t realize I could still see the threads he starts if I had him on ignore. My apologies for not doing it earlier.

    Literally all Derka has to do is click one button to be able to stay.

    This is all a very silly waste of everyone’s time. I wrote a long post about it earlier that didn’t post.

    The short of it is I have been actively trying not to aggravate Derka. My apologies to him for being rude in the past. My apologies to everyone for not putting him on ignore earlier. My apologies to immamac and blacklabs for wasting their time with this silliness. 
     

    I wish Derka well, am truly not trying to antagonize him, and have now put him on ignore for the rest of time. 

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  13. 5 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    I mean wasn't this even well-known at Tech? 

    Yes. Which is probably why he made a big deal out of not drinking during the season his first year here

    Anytime someone makes a big deal out of the fact they’re not drinking they probably have issues with alcohol.

    https://www.outsider.com/sports/texas-basketball-coach-chris-beard-giving-up-beer-2021-22-season/

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  14. 4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Funny, if what you say is true, you'd think nobody, anywhere would engage in discussion with me.  But they do.  

    "combative and insulting".  Talk about projection.

    There's a lot of people on here who have no problem with anyone except for one person.

    Yet that one person claims that everyone else is the combative, rude, insulting, argumentative one. 

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